One year after the transformation of the Center for Combating Corruption and Economic Crime (CCCEC) into the National Anticorruption Center (CNA), the Ministry of Finance submitted a bill suggesting that the Financial Inspectorate managed by it should be empowered with the right to carry out financial inspections at enterprises. A bill to this effect was sent to the Government for examination.
The Financial Inspectorate’s head Diana Grosu-Axenti has told IPN that before the reorganization of the CCCEC into the CNA, the center investigated all the aspects of the economic offenses, including financial. After the reorganization, there appeared a legislative vacuum and the mentioned powers were transmitted to none of the inspection bodies. As a result, many of the instituted criminal proceedings that require carrying out inspections are stopped because there is no body to perform such an activity.
Currently, the Financial Inspectorate can carry out financial inspections only at the central and local public authorities and the institutions managed by them. The bill proposes that the Inspectorate should be allowed to carry out financial inspections at enterprises within investigations, at the request of the law enforcement bodies.
The CCCEC became the National Anticorruption Center on October 1, 2012.
